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1995 - 1999 Studies in Chemistry (and ecology) at the University of Zürich
1999 - 2004 PhD studies at the University of Zürich
2004 - 2005 Postdoc (with Prof. D. Milstein) at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2005 - 2011 Habilitation (venia legendi in Chemistry) at the University of Zürich
2013 - 2014 Certificate of Advanced Studies PH Zürich

Beruflicher Werdegang

PD Dr. Christian M. Frech finished his studies in chemistry (with ecology as minor subject) in 1999 at the University of Zürich (Switzerland). After his PhD studies in 2004 he joined the research group of Prof. D. Milstein in Israel at the Weizmann Institute of Science for a post-doc. In March 2005 he got a position as independent research group leader (Habilitation) at the Institute of inorganic chemistry at the University of Zürich. He successfully finished his Habilitation and got promoted to PD (venia legendi) in October 2011. In 2013 he moved to the Institute of Chemical & Biological Chemistry Institute (ICBC) at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Wädenswil, where he is now a docent and research group leader. His research focus is devoted to the design and development of new, stable but highly active, cheap and easy accessible cross-coupling catalysts, which should find their application in organic syntheses and industrial processes. He followed a conceptually novel approach in the catalyst design and developed the so-called Frech catalysts, which can operate via molecular mechanisms as well as promote the formation of nanoparticles. Frech's catalysts are commercially available at Sigma-Aldrich (see Prod.-Nr.: 727733, 744220 and 744999) and were successfully applied in industry. Frech's catalysts are in addition of advantageous when compared to other systems from ecologic and economic points of view.